Unguarded conversation between Blair & Bush over Middle East Crisis

Just breaking - A conversation between Bush and Blair when they thought no one was listening. Bush is critical of Kofi and involvement of UN. He
mentions Syria and Rice. He also utters a swear word while chewing a piece of bread(?) while Blair leans in and nods a lot and mentions international
intervention. Watch the video on BBC. I'm looking for the transcript and a full video. CNN is currently playing it.

"See, the irony is, what they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this s**t," Mr Bush told Mr Blair in a discussion
before a G8 summit lunch.

The more I think about it, the more I think they staged this. They knew people were listening. If you catch the video on CNN you can see Bush almost
look toward the camera and grin when is talking about Syria.

Perhaps it was staged, but Bush has accidently spoken into microphones he thought were turned off before. Who knows? It maybe a good thing though that
this happened either way, a certain warning to Syria with plausable deniability that it was meant to be done officially.

Blair: Well that's all that matters. If you see, it will take some time to get out of there. But at least it gives people....

Bush: It's a process I agree. I told her your offer too.

Blair: Well it's only or if she's gonna or if she needs the ground prepared as it were. See, if she goes out she's got to succeed as it were, where
as I can just go out and talk.

Bush: See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this # and it's over.

Blair: Cause I think this is all part of the same thing. What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if he gets a solution in Israel and
Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way, he's done it. That's what this whole things about. It's the same with Iran.

Bush: I feel like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad and make something happen. We're not blaming Israel and we're not blaming the Lebanese
government.

I don't think it was staged. He wouldn't use that language. He was candid, being himself. Talking while food flung out of his potty mouth.

Originally posted by DDay
I personally think this private conversation is a unique opportunity to see what the two leaders really think off the table and outside of a press
conference.

It's also an opportunity for those who revere President Bush and his claims of Christianity to see that he has more of a potty mouth than I do. The
ease at which that language rolled effortlessly out of his mouth indicates to me that he uses this kind of language all the time. I've never heard a
Christian talk like that.

I don't really care if Bush would have dropped an F-bomb into the microphone. I actually agree with him for one of the first times on one of his
opinons. I hope he's right about Syria.

Of course the media and some people here are making a big ordeal about him swearing, so what? I swear like a trucker sometimes when I get fired up.
It's good that he's showing some emotion instead of being the wooden boy like he has been his whole presidency. Maybe if he stops letting his
strings get pulled he'll finally be the leader that the US needs right now.

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